Which two gathering professions are the most profitable?

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Post by Greyhame

Mainly IMO because in order for Skinning to be profitable you have to have Leatherworking to upgrade all the scraps and lower level skins to something that actually sells.

Plus with Herbalism you can get Motes of Life pretty good and with Mining you can get Motes of Earth of Motes of Fire in Hellfire.

Post by munix

I always go with Herbalism+Skinning or Mining+Skinning. Can't track two types of things at once (herbs and veins).

Skinning can be plenty profitable if you skin the right things. Like clefthoofs. Clefthoof leather sells for 60g a stack on my server. And you're going to kill tons of beasts anyway, may as well skin them.

I'd go with Herbalism rather than Mining now. People are going to be buying tons of herbs in WotLK for the new inscription profession.

Post by Adross

Unless you can get a Gatherer dump from somebody I would suggest Mining + Skinning so you don't have to track two things at once.

If you can get a good amount of nodes do both and make a macro that switched between the two tracking abilities and spam it when you farm.

Post by Aymeri

Mining/herbing is probably most profitable, from an Outland point of view anyway. Skinning not so much, or at least, it's not beneficial to the only toon with skinning I have (Outland leathers don't sell so well, it seems). However, there are three professions that benefit from Mining, and precious stones and primals are bought by a lot of people to make/enhance their gear. Anyone who raids needs pots and flasks, and so herbs generally sell well, and the motes and primals of Life you gain through herbing generally find a market too.

As for the tracking thing: just hotkey both the "find ", and switch them while you run by or fly over. It works fine. (edit: I use Cartographer specifically for mining/herbing; you can have it make routes for you to take, which make it easier to do both things at once. Of course these routes work just as well if you only have one of the profs)

Post by Maurice119

Mining / Herb is just too hard without an addon, being you can't track two kinds of minerals at one time. Anyways, whenever I play on a server I'm new to, I always pick Mining + Skinning, because they're the most profitable. (Before Outland, that is)

Post by Clopert

Whenever I pick up an alt, I do Skinning always, and mining/herb depending on what i feel like, but I find herbalism easier to gain money with.

Skinning - You're guaranteed to get lots of leather by just killing beasts.

Mining - Usually, veins aren't out in the middle of a field, they're in the mountains and little hills, so unless you're in an area where you'll get to these areas lots, its not as easy as herbalism. This however, only applies to low level characters with no mount to run around the hills with.

Herbalism - As long as you remember to track, finding them on your minimap is a breeze and if you're questing you'll be out in the open lots. I tend to see a lot more herbs than veins just wandering around on my main.

Post by kittypewpew

In my experience (on the alonsus-eu realm) skinning and mining are incredibly profitable to do while you're levelling up but that herbalism becomes more profitable than skinning at the endgame because hey, people always need potions even after they've got their crafted LW gear.

Post by Tojone

Remember, you get a mining skill point not even from mining the vein but also smelting it into bars. You can make money with mining by hitting veins and smelting then selling bars until that lvl (i.e. copper) turns grey. Then you make more money by selling copper ore so the 70's can powerlvl their mining skill.

Only smelt until you dont get points for that ore anymore.

Tojo

Post by dpoyesac

In my experience (on the alonsus-eu realm) skinning and mining are incredibly profitable to do while you're levelling up but that herbalism becomes more profitable than skinning at the endgame because hey, people always need potions even after they've got their crafted LW gear.

I was gonna say this exact same thing. You post ninja.

No, wait -- it's very bad advice. Take Skinning and Enchanting (so you can d/e for mats) --- Bwahahaha! (See, it's funny because the fewer people take herbalism/minig, the money money I can make.)

Post by 236yfpjkjhd

I always go with Herbalism+Skinning or Mining+Skinning. Can't track two types of things at once (herbs and veins).

You don't HAVE to track both types... Since minerals only spawn at a relatively few set locations you simply ride/fly past them and eyeball wether there's a node spawned or not while actively tracking herbs.

Works fine, especially if you use gatherer or similar to keep track of where mineral nodes spawn... :P

Post by Garlash

I would say skinning and mining, but it can vary because of the server economy.

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